Has your system changed the music you listen to?

From the above replies it seems that most people have answered yes to the original question. Is it possible that people are confusing the effects of their evolving systems with the fact that virtually everybody who loves music has different taste at age 40 then they did at 20? I would hope that a good music reproduction system would encourage people to explore and appreciate different types of music, but it should never limit the type of music you might want to experience.

That was kind of my take on it too, Onhwy61 - some combination of having a nice system, enough money to purchase a fair amount of music, and getting older and broadening my horizons a bit has led me to explore and appreciate a much wider variety of music. To the extent that a nice system makes music listening more enjoyable, I guess it has contributed to changing the music I listen to, but not in the spirit of the original question. -Kirk

I have really enjoyed reading everyone's responses. Just as a follow-up: I have been in "the high-end game" for almost 15 years now. My system has slowly evolved, with each evolution getting better in quality. My most recent change was from an all-tube system (from CD player to power amp) to an all solid-state system. It was probably more of a lateral move than a class change.

I would not rule-out, in any way, my life circumstances and the way my taste in music has changed as I age (im now 33). I listen to all differnt kinds ofmusic from classical to rock, to international. I have certainly come to appreciate the fact that good recordings are just more enjoyable. But I definitely sense that my current system synergy has played a part in my personal discovery of jazz music.

I have really enjoyed reading everyone's responses. Just as a follow-up: I have been in "the high-end game" for almost 15 years now. My system has slowly evolved, with each evolution getting better in quality. My most recent change was from an all-tube system (from CD player to power amp) to an all solid-state system. It was probably more of a lateral move than a class change.

I would not rule-out, in any way, my life circumstances and the way my taste in music has changed as I age (im now 33). I listen to all differnt kinds ofmusic from classical to rock, to international. I have certainly come to appreciate the fact that good recordings are just more enjoyable. But I definitely sense that my current system synergy has played a part in my personal discovery of jazz music.

I guess for me it was organ music. I used to hate organ recordings, becuase they just never sounded right. As the system got better, especially the power amp and speakers, I found myself listening to organ music more often cause it sounded like it should. Also, more massive classical music is now much more fun to listen to. Interesting... never thought of it before.